Sadie Gets a Life 0.2.5 Dev Log, 2025-12-18
We are one week out from the Tier 3 release of 0.2.5. This is the closest-run release yet in terms of my getting it done, but I will release it on time and will try to spend a bit of extra effort testing. And yes, 0.2.5 will be a Christmas gift to any Tier 3 subscribers and a New Year's present for everyone else.
In the prior dev log, I mentioned several places Sadie and company will be able to visit in Svetlanda. In this dev log, I'll talk about plotlines and where we're going.
Version 0.2.5 will introduce seven more Den of Thieves missions, including conclusions for two of the four gangs. Which two, I'll save as a secret until release. We'll finish off the remaining two gangs in 0.2.6, but more about that later.
In addition, 0.2.5 has one more Adventurers' Guild quest and one extra-challenging optional battle in the Slums. As a spoiler, there are going to be a few tough battles in this release, especially for people who eschewed Neemar and his 52-Card Pickup debuff skill.
As I mentioned last week, this release probably won't be quite as long in terms of playtime as the last few releases, but I think it'll still clock in at around 3 hours of playtime. It also includes four separate sex scenes, including the conclusion of an earlier interaction with a boyfriend-girlfriend pair in the Slums.
Looking forward just a little bit, 0.2.6 will be the last release in Svetlanda. We'll wrap up the final Den of Thieves missions and finally sit down with the Duke. Then the game moves to what it really should be: Pseudo-Medieval Politics Simulator 2026.
Okay, I'm only kidding about that. Mostly. But the remaining 0.2 releases will focus a lot less on violence & action and spend more time on the consequences of Sadie's actions throughout Act II, as well as a bit of horse trading. We'll introduce one more large city and a small town, though Sadie won't get to explore very much of either due to plot-related reasons. We'll also wrap up the Isekai Order plotline for a bit, but Crassus and company will return in Act III.
If you're a Discord member, I shared timeline for Act III and the much-anticipated 0.3.0 release in there. For everyone else, I recommend waiting with bated breath. But not baited breath, because that's not pleasant for anyone.
One thing I will leak here is that I'm planning to spend a fair amount of time in the final releases of Act II fleshing out the characters around Sadie a bit more. My goal is to have a unique voice and style for each of the primary (Sadie, Ellanon, Neemar, Dinestra, Karin, Mallory, Lexi) and secondary (Abraxis, Celeste, Crassus, Jericross, Sabrina) characters in the game so far, especially as we meet new people in Act III and beyond. By the end of Act II, ideally, you have a feeling for who these people are. Then, throughout Acts III and IV, we'll see these characters grow. We'll see how successful I ultimately am at this, but I wrote it down on a backlog item, so that means it has to happen, right?